Takes up questions of subjectification, selfhood and identity in the contemporary Asia Pacific, in 'sites of crossing' between the global and local. Here, the authors question the novelty of the 'global age' in the Asia Pacific region.

The authors take up questions of subjectification, selfhood and identity in the contemporary Asia Pacific, in 'sites of crossing' between the global and local. The contributors engage with artistic and literary production and religions, as strategies for global domination but also as designs for 'planetary conviviality' and new and old migrations. The migrant appears as the quintessential image of a new cosmopolitanism. Collectively, the authors question the novelty of the 'global age' in the Asia Pacific region.

Notes on Contributors - Introduction: Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitanisms: Self and Subject in Motion K.Robinson - PART 1: REPRESENTATION, SELF-RECOGNITION AND SELF-DISCOVERY - 'Self' and 'Subject' in Southeast Asian Literature in the Global Age
T.Day - Art and Identity Politics: Nation, Religion, Ethnicity, Elsewhere
K.M.George - Moving Stories: Beyond the Local in Ethnography and Fiction
K.Narayan - Wounds in Our Heart: Identity and Social Justice in the Art of Dadang Christanto
C.Turner - PART
2: RELIGION, COSMOPOLITANISM AND SUBJECTIFICATION - Billy Graham in the South Seas
R.Eves - A Cultural Revival!
Development, and the Custom of Christian Country in Western
Province, Papua New Guinea
A.Dundon - Sufi Regional
Cults in South Asia and Indonesia: Towards a Comparative Analysis
P.Werbner - PART 3: IDENTITY AND DISPLACEMENT
- The Dragon Dance: Shifting Meanings of Chineseness in Indonesia
M.Budianta - Identities in a Culture of Circulation: Performing Selves in Filipina Migration
D.Mckay - Transporting Culture Across Borders - The Hmong
N.Tapp - Index